Historical Fort Benton

The history of Fort Benton, head of navigation on the Upper Missouri, spans every era of Montana history! All photos and writing are copyright Ken Robison. "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges. John Muir on Glacier Park: "Give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal."*

11 February 2015

2015 Mullan Road Conference Registration

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2015 MULLAN ROAD CONFERENCE                                               MAY 22-24 2015     REGISTRATION FORM MONTANA AGRICULTURAL CEN...
04 February 2015

Remembering our Mullan Road Conference May 20-22 in Fort Benton

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Special 150th Anniversary Mullan Road Conference Edition of the River Press published 20 May 2010 By Ken Robison David Parchen paintin...
25 December 2014

Why Have Women Been Overlooked?

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Some 99 years ago, brilliant Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann wrote a letter to the Missoulian. Here is Mattie's eloquent comment on wome...
08 December 2014

Samuel Clemens Goes to War and Bails on the Whole Affair

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Remembering Our Civil War Heritage and Heroes: 1861-1865 Samuel Clemens Goes to War and Bails on the Whole Affair By Ken Robison ...
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Fort Benton Historian
Historian at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton, River and Plains Society Board of Directors, Great Falls/ Cascade County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission, Honorary Trustee Union Bethel A. M. E. Church, Board of Directors Alma Smith Jacobs Foundation, Organization of American Historians, Montana Historical Society, Captain United States Navy (ret.) Received Montana Historical Society's Montana Heritage Keeper Award 2010 and The History Museum's Legacy Award 2011 Contact at: riverplains@mtintouch.net Check out: http://mhs.mt.gov/research/ AfricanAmerican/African AmericanInMT.asp
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